Ronan Hallowell BA, MA, EdD

Ronan Hallowell, EdD is an assistant professor of clinical medical education at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He is a student of the world’s wisdom traditions and a ceremonial singer in the Lakota tradition. Dr. Hallowell has spent over twenty years researching and writing about intercultural communication in the context of the Lakota/Native American Sun Dance tradition. He also conducts research on physician professional identity formation, curriculum design and cross-cultural perspectives on medicine which has included a long-term interest in traditional Amazonian plant medicine.

As a member of the Learning Sciences team in the Department of Medical Education at Keck, he works with colleagues to provide a suite of curriculum and instruction services to faculty and administrators that includes instructional design, faculty development and the Keck Next Curriculum Renewal Initiative. Dr. Hallowell earned his EdD in educational psychology from the University of Southern California and his MA in philosophy and religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies.